LE

Is it me or does there seem a lot more positive press about the army /military around at the moment?Nice to think it's warranted , but slightly nervous about what's next.
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Old-Salt

LE

Boys, boys..curb your enthusiasm. just because the article didn't describe Roebuck company as potenital rapists or institutionalized racists this hardly constitutes "positive" coverage. OK, it is a nice puff piece for the roebuck boys scrapbooks and typical of the Torygraph; which to be fair has always been fairly on-side towards the forces in general and the TA in particular. However it smacks of a press release from DPR(A), "sensitively" and "sympathetically" re-written by tame hacks to ensure warm glow factor - at a time when everyone and their wife are looking at TA retention and morale and crying from the tallest tower in the land "WTF?" Even the Torygraph itself carrried the 800 reservists mobilized story on Monday with concerned comment.

One swallow does not make a spring and I for one wil be snugged up in my four season gonk-bag metaphorically for a while yet...

They used to say if an infinite number of chimps typed we would get the works of Shakespeare, the internet has proved this is NOT the case...

Clanker

Well put Cuddles. Being in the company that replaced Roebuck I can say that the warm-glow feeling the article presents is certainly not widespread among their successors. Op **** has been in effect since we landed (example, sleeves rolled to elbows instead of above, rifting), R&R hasn't kicked in yet and were struggling for sleep, when it does each platoon will be 1 team down for 4 months. When I was moblilized I thought I would be soldiering for six months, patrolling, interacting with the locals, actually doing something that mattered. Instead were used as underpaid, overworked security guards. If people wonder why so many people in the TA leave after being mobilized its because they have a **** tour doing the jobs the regulars wouldn't touch with a shitty stick. Rant over.

Edit: This is not Spigot, whoever he is didn't log off when he left this comp. Apologies to him for posting on his account.